Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, … - Elbert Hubbard

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There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still.

Elbert Hubbard

Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world.

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